AT&T FIOS DVR vs TIVO

Frank:
You are, of course, correct that the cable company's DVRs are
inferior, however for the point of accuracy, FiOS is a Verizon
product, and the AT&T product is Uverse.
--chip
On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:00 PM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:27:14 -0500
> From: "fgentges at mindspring.com" <fgentges at mindspring.com>
> To: Tacos <tacos at amrad.org>
> Subject: AT&T FIOS DVR vs TIVO
>> Tacoistas,
>> We had the AT&T DVR made by Motorola and it lacked many useful
> features
> and was woefully short on storage space with no option to upgrade it.
> We got rid of the supplied DVR and got genuine Tivo DVRs. Wow! What a
> difference. If you have FIOS, think about getting a Tivo and
> returning
> the supplied DVR to AT&T.
>> I bought my Factory Renewed Tivo from the factory, changed out the
> hard
> drive with a 2 TB drive kit from eBay and it all works great. With
> 2 TB
> of storage, I can record lots of programs in HD without worrying about
> running out of room. I can access the recorded programs over my local
> Ethernet network from my computers, watch programs and record them
> to DVDs.
>> Now we see that AT&T is going to pay big bucks for patent infringement
> with an inferior unit. They should have used Tivo to start with.
>> See http://tinyurl.com/84n76au>> Frank K0BRA